I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way. -- Nancy Garden

Some suggestions for you :

If music be the food of love, play on.

Making peace is harder than making war.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.

Nature is the art of God.

When you realize there is no lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Where there is love, there is life.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

What were all striving for is authenticity a spirit-to-spirit connection.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we'd see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he'd say, 'Let's go collect rent!'